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JOHN s. Coxon DELAWARE, OHIO.

Letters .Patent No. 75,377, dated' March `10, 1868.

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TOA'LL WHOM 1T MAY eoNoERN:

le it known that I, JOHN SUCOX, of Delaware, in the county of Delaware,and State of Ohio, have invented n new Mode for Preserving the Bodies ofthe Dead before Burial, or a Refrigerator-Coffin; and I do herebydeclarethat the following isa. full and exact description thereof,reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to theletters ofreference marked thereon,'making a, part of this specification.l

The nature of my invent-ion consists in making the eoiln with threechambers, which are shown by 11,19, and e in g. 2 in the accompanyingdrawing. p

a and c, two of these chambers, representvthe refrigerators, which areat the head and foot of the coffin proper, @which is to contain thecorpse. The whole is to be made with box-,lining of wood or zinc, asrepresented by letters rZ d d, and to be filled with sew-dust, charcoal,shavings, or other substances used in refrigerf ators.` Therefrigerator-chambers a and. o are to be lled with ice and salt, asshown in the accompanying drawinfr. The cor seis lacedn onl araek comosod of slats raised from one to two inches above the' bottom of.

a P P P a P the chamber b, and, by means of the ventilator at 'the end sof the chambers a ond c, and sides of b, the cold or chilled airgenerated in the refrigerator is carried into the centre chamber or conproper, b, and brought into contactA with every portion of the corpseplaced upon the rack as aforesaid. By this means no foreign o'rOffensive substance is brought into Contact with the corpse, but thesame is kept perfectly pure and clean, and preserved for any length oftime, in the warmest weather, in a chilled* or frozen state.

Lettersf andf, at the bottom of chambers a and o, represent the pipesfor conducting away the water formed in the refrigerators, so that itcannot pass into the Cottin-chamber, which pipes nreto be so covered byeverated tin and holes underneath, which will allow' the water only topes's into them.

The figures 1, 2, 3, in hg. 3, represent the movable lid tontherefrigerator endcon, and e, a lid moving on pivots'over a. gloss,directly above the head of the corpse. v

The double-walled refrigeratoncoin, constructed as described, with theice-chambers a c at the head fand foot of the corpse-chamber Z, seidice-chambers having exterior .openings,ff, for the escape'of water, andcemmunicating with the corpse-chamber containing the rack, by means ofopenings in the bottom of the inner wells K of said chambers, as hereindescribed for the purposc'speeiied.

JOHN S. COX.

Witnesses:

T. E. POWELL, CEAS. E. ZEIGLER.

